Sentence examples for storm surge level from inspiring English sources
After the disaster in 1953, a statistical approach to the storm surge levels was chosen and an extrapolated storm surge level would be the basis for dike design.
ηCE is estimated by adding the storm surge level (ηstorm surge) and the wave setup, with the latter approximated as the significant wave height (Hs) multiplied by 0.25.
The resulting storm surge level and Hs time series are combined to generate ηCE time series according to Eq. (2) and ηCE values for different return periods are obtained using a stationary version of a non-stationary extreme value analysis package42.
Based on the analysis of best hindcast results, the storm surge level was 5 6 m and local amplification of water surface elevation due to seiche was found to be significant inside Leyte Gulf.
The obtained information allows for a more reliable extreme value analysis to determine storm surge levels for different return periods.
Vousdoukas, M. I., Voukouvalas, E., Annunziato, A., Giardino, A. & Feyen, L. Projections of extreme storm surge levels along Europe.
* Generally speaking, the highest storm surge levels were around 8-10 feet in southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi.
Smarter building codes are also needed, according to Lin, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, who heads the effort to predict storm surge levels.
Climate change related hazards, including SLR and storm surge overwash, were integrated into floodplain maps for each island using projected SLR data for 2100 in combination with estimated storm surge levels based on data collected over a forty year period.
On top of that, Dr. Dessler said, sea levels have already risen because of global warming, and those heightened sea levels make storm surge levels higher, pushing more water onto land and creating even more flooding.
Since the domain of the TC simulations is global, technically, each event produces a global dataset of storm surge levels, which are combined with the ones of the ERA-INTERIM reanalysis by selecting the highest value.
